OT: Kareem

Just looked at his career stats:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/abdulka01.html

Holy crap! Look at those first 10 years! When is another player like that going to come around again? Our expectations of Oden have been so lowered that I forgot what the numbers of a true Hall of Fame franchise center were.

 

Why do you keep using words like "we" and "our?" Your disappointment in Oden is far from universal.

 

Perhaps he is of two separate minds trapped in one single body.

 

Kareem was pretty sick. 23.4 ppg at age 38? That's incredible. 35 and 17 in his prime years? wow.. video game numbers.

 

This is definitely not aimed at KingSpeed, just reminded me of a joke.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a schizophrenic
And so am I.

 

head!Baltar and normal!Baltar would agree.

 

I said "our." Never said "we." Don't tell me that your expectations of Oden haven't been lowered over the last two seasons. We drafted him in 2007. Did you expect his career averages to be 9,7, & 1 come November 2009? The injury and his slow play out of the gate lowered all of our expectations.

 

I wondered if anyone would catch the source. Used to be among my fave movies.

 

brilliant

 

"Our" is a word like "we" and "our."

I wish I could respect your wishes, but I have to say that my expectations haven't been lowered.

No, so my predictions for November 2009 would have been incorrect. That's different from my expectations for his prime.

There you go again, using words like "we" and "our."

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/our

I am a helping hand.

 

I'm too young to die! (see what I did there, I called you old)

 

So what were your expectations for his rookie year? What are your expectations for this season?

 

Either your expectations have been lowered or you never had high expectations to begin with.

 

Broken logic. As I said, my predictions for his first two seasons would have been wrong. But I started off with high expectations for him and I still have high expectations for him. Really, the only disappointing thing to me was his missed time to injury. His on-court play has been consistent with the development of a big-time talent. If he's still playing like this as he approaches his prime (age 25 onward or so), my expectations will be much lower.

 

What do you expect out of Oden in his prime?